Portrait of young girl
Γ217
Stone (White marble)
Head broken at the neck join. Chipping on nose, jaw and crobylos. Wear and accretions on skin in many places.
Height: 20.5 cm.Width: 17 cm. Thickness: 19.3 cm.
Archanes
Agios Nikolaos neighbourhood
Roman period:
early 3rd c. AD:
Gallery:
XXVIICase:
Not in caseExhibition thematic unit:
Sculpture. Hellenistic period (3rd-2nd c. BC) Roman period (1st c. BC-3rd c. AD)The art of portraiture
Description
Life-size portrait of a young girl rendered fully frontally, with an emphatically sorrowful expression that contrasts with her lively eyes and full lips, indicating the age of the person depicted. The distinctive “melon” hairstyle, with evenly divided curled braids drawn back into a tight bun (crobylus), is an appropriate choice for Classical sculptures of young women and girls. In Roman times this coiffure regained its popularity, mainly due to its use in portraits of Plautilla, briefly (202-205 AD) the wife of the Emperor Caracalla. The statue to which this head belonged was probably set up over the grave in honour of a young maiden from a prosperous family of the town on the site of modern-day Archanes, in the territory and the wider cultural landscape of the flourishing city of Knossos.Bibliography:
N. Platon, A Guide to the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, Athens 1964, 151. Α. Datsouli-Stavridi Α., "Τα ρωμαϊκά πορτραίτα του Μουσείου Ηρακλείου", Πεπραγμένα του Δ΄ Διεθνούς Κρητολογικού Συνεδρίου, Α2, Agios Nikolaos 1981, 585ff., pl. 192,4. M. Lagogianni-Georgakarakos, Die römischen Porträts Kretas. Bezirk Heraklion, CSIR Griechenland 6, 1, Athen 2002, 83, Nr. 59, Taf. 62.Author:
K. S.Photographs' metadata